Catalyzing

Catalyzing is the Catalyst blog, bringing together and amplifying diverse voices that share Catalyst’s mission to expand opportunities for women and business. Catalyzing reflects the wide range of opinions, ideas, and experiences of Catalyst employees, incorporating perspectives from our offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond. It also features non-Catalyst industry leaders, experts, and academics committed to changing workplaces and lives. Get the RSS feed.

Catalyzing

Our President & Chief Executive Officer Deborah Gillis is the fourth President in Catalyst’s52-year history. In this month’s Ask Deborah, we posed a reader’s question about equipping hiring managers to counteract the biases women of different national identities and cultural backgrounds...

Catalyzing

Every year on Equal Pay Day, Catalyst blogs about the frustratingly persistent gender pay gap. This year, we decided to go beyond the numbers and ask real women to share their stories of pay inequity in their own words. We included two such stories on our blog last week; below are two more. We...

Catalyzing

Women in the workplace are often confronted with obstacles that impede their advancement to leadership positions. For women of color, visible minority women, and indigenous women, these obstacles are affected by the intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Conversations about how to...

April 20, 2015 by Brandee Sanders

Catalyzing

Today is Equal Pay Day. The date symbolizes how far into this year women must work to earn what men earned last year. Equal Pay Day was created almost 20 years ago to draw awareness to the ongoing gap between men's and women's wages.

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In January we heard fromSarah Raiss about how she helped her Women On Board®mentee, Sandra Stuart, craft a more effective board resume. This month, Sandra shares more of what she’s learned from Sarah and Women On Board® about making sure your new-and-improved profile gets seen.